Fashion Quiz 2

T/F: Cotton was the fabric most used by poor people during the Middle Ages

False

T/F: The Crusades had no affect on Medieval life and clothing

False

T/F: The tablion is the headdress worn by the Byzantine emperor

False

T/F: There are no extant garments from the early middle ages

False

"A pattern of change in which certain social forms enjoy temporary acceptance and respectability only to be replaced by others" is the definition of:

Fashion

The 16th century in England was divided between the great Tudor monarchs:

Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

T/F: In 330, Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, signaling the decline of Rome and the western portion of the empire.

True

T/F: In its history of more than a thousand years, the Byzantine Empire developed an artistic and intellectual atmosphere in which styles and ideas of both east and west were merged.

True

T/F: The costume of the Byzantine Empire combined elements of costume from Asia with Roman dress

True

Bliaut: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

b) outer garment

Gardencorps: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

b) outer garment

Garnache: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

b) outer garment

a skirted extension of men's jackets, either attached or separate garment

bases

The period we call the Renaissance:

grew out of a renewed interest in the writings and art of classical antiquity

The headdress style influenced by the East was an enormous cone-shaped peaked hat that was as must as a yard high:

hennin

Women wore this garment beginning in the 14th century:

houppelande

term for jacket in England

jerkin

This invention allowed for closer fitting hose:

knitting machine

By the mid-16th century, upper hose and nether hose had evolved into a large, padded breech called:

trunk hose

This royal brought her Italian tailors and dressmakers, perfumers, cook, and other craftsmen to France, where they found ample opportunity to employ their talents:

Catherine de Medici

This flared, cone-shaped skirt required support to achieve the desired rigidity of line. This look was achieved by a:

Spanish farthingale

This embroidery, often applied to the neck band and wrists of men's shirts and women's chemises, consisted of delicate, black-silk figures worked on fine white linen

Spanish work

If an artist of the 15th century depicted a woman in a close-fitting gown, and over this a sideless surcote with a stiffened panel in the front that was decorated with a row of brooches, a contemporary viewer would know at once that this woman was:

a French queen or princess

Chemise: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

a) underwear

a pad worn around the waist to hold out wide skirts

bumroll

Barbette: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

c) an element of headdress

Coif: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

c) an element of headdress

Wimple: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

c) an element of headdress

Which of the following were NOT elements of men's costume during the 16th century in Northern Europe: a) peascod belly b) pecadils c) poulaines d) Venetians

c) poulaines

a pouch of fabric to accommodate the genitals

codpiece

Which of the following were not styles of the Middle Ages: a) Magyar sleeves b) Parti-colored clothes c) Hanging sleeves d) Kalasiris

d) Kalasiris

Girdle: a) underwear b) outer garment c) an element of headdress d) accessory

d) accessory

The technique of cutting points or scallops into the edges of garments, hanging sleeve flaps, and even hats is called:

dagging

what were called braies in the Medieval periods

drawers

The search for unique patterns led to this practice of sewing together sections of different-colored fabrics within one garment:

parti-colored

Instead of an under dress and an outer dress, women wore this garment and an overdress

petticoat

The elongated and exaggeratedly pointed-toed shoes was called:

poulaine

This closely fitted, sleeveless garment with a padded front originated as military dress:

pourpoint

outermost gown for women that fits at the shoulder and falls loosely to the floor

ropa

Difference between the dress of Italians and inhabitants of Northern Europe during the first half of the 15th century would have included:

shoes in Italy were not so long and pointed, women in Italy covered their hair less completely, men did not adopt the "bowl cut"

By the 16th century, undergarments for women took on this new role:

the shaping and support of the outer garments